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    Pretty TerryAnne Branigin
    3/15/19 11:07am

    Excellent piece. I’m not a professional editor (although I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express once), but please allow me one piece of editorial advice:

    fuck Candace Owens

    This should be moved to the top. Bold. 18 pt font. Underlined and red.

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      Nunna Yorz (Greys get dismissed with prejudice)Pretty Terry
      3/15/19 12:24pm

      She doesn’t even deserve that much attention to her name. She should get the Trashy Lozenge treatment.

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      Makes Me Wonder Why I Even Bring The ThunderNunna Yorz (Greys get dismissed with prejudice)
      3/15/19 12:33pm
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    BadOmbreAnne Branigin
    3/15/19 11:35am

    Owens’ only gift is grift, and she’s been exceptional at it in a way that says far more about conservative white people’s grievances than it says about her.

    This, this, this. It ain’t even about her, it’s about them. It shows the absolute moral depravity and intellectual bankruptcy of their “movement.”

    Mark my words, Trump will be the death of this current iteration of American “conservatism.”  It doesn’t exist for any intellectual or moral end; it exists simply to perpetuate itself like a mindless virus.  It will do anything, say anything, believe anything for no other reason than to further its existence.

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      sayyadinaBadOmbre
      3/15/19 11:50am

      Is it wrong that I really feel like we need to talk more about how her grift is so impossibly lazy? I mean, if one has to be a grifter, one could at least be an interesting grifter. But she can’t even manage that.

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      BlaqueBloqueBadOmbre
      3/15/19 2:24pm

      Agreed. Today’s conservatives willingly choose shit that's harmful for them as long as they think it'll "trigger the libs".

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    sTalkinggoat, first and last of his nameAnne Branigin
    3/15/19 11:31am

    Wait... Is the shooter black? Candace Owens is weird pull for a white supremacist terrorist, because like the article said she’s not particularly compelling in any way.

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      Lizard BreathsTalkinggoat, first and last of his name
      3/15/19 11:35am

      She is his one black friend.

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      BadOmbresTalkinggoat, first and last of his name
      3/15/19 11:40am

      It reads as trolling.

      Anne hit the nail on the head. He is obviously trolling just like she does. This part of the manifesto in particular is meant to get attention.

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    Surprise PumaAnne Branigin
    3/15/19 11:35am

    I miss being able to star articles I strongly agree with. ⭐️ 

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      Vanessa FutrellSurprise Puma
      3/15/19 11:51am

      ME TOO!

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      usedtobehereSurprise Puma
      3/15/19 1:10pm

      I miss that feature too. Bookmarking feels like it’s more for me than to elevate an important article for others. 

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    SkaOreoAnne Branigin
    3/15/19 12:09pm

    What gets me the most is how petty this all is. White Supremacy is petty by nature, but this whole trolling aspect of it—this is the reason why 49 people had to die?

    And there’s no reason to read that manifesto because it’s all bullshit. The shooters aren’t some psychotic monsters, or some type of variant of The Joker who does things for “the lulz,” these are sad, pathetic children who are weaponizing their misery against anyone they deem to be the cause of their failures.

    That chorus of voices affirms the fears of many white people: that the world has turned too brown, too black, too Muslim, too queer, too femme, too many names you can’t pronounce, too sensitive, too “P.C.” (which just means that you’re hearing the voices of people you’ve historically offended too damn much). They’re the choir that sings the songs racists and nationalists and aspiring terrorists want to hear, only to turn around and rake in speaking fees and TV time; only to cackle over the spikes of engagement and followers that trail every dumb provocation they’ve engineered—because that is the emotional currency that puts real coin in their pockets.

    Fucking this. No different than the Proud Boys, or  Jordan Petersons nonsense. 

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      SwagstallionSkaOreo
      3/15/19 2:05pm

      His whole “manifesto” was written to troll the media.

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      SkaOreoSwagstallion
      3/15/19 2:20pm

      Yes and No. Yes, there’s a lot of shit in that manifesto that is designed specifically to trigger libs with the amount of shitposting.

      He is, however, very much a white supremacist. And his reasoning for doing this is steeped in neo-nazism.  That is what he is.

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    cdwag14Anne Branigin
    3/15/19 11:32am

    I remember when Scream 4 came out in 2011 we in the gestation stages of what Ms. Brangin called “the attention economy.” In other words fame and clicks at the expense of doing nothing to earn the attention other than saying something outrageous or profiting off of misfortune and turning that into a career as a blogger or something else. As Scream 4 noted Sydney Prescott became a famous author and media celebrity based on a personal tragedy & built a career off of that, her cousin wanted the same thing but she was willing to fake a tragedy rather than have actual misfortune fall her way. This thinking is essentially what drives the “attention economy.” From The Kardashians, Ann Coulter, Bill Maher, Candace Owens, Dana Loesch and yes the mother fucking president (lower case intentional) they get their fame and energy from saying and doing the ugliest shit possible. The part that is sickening is that they then claim no responsibility for what they leave in their wake. Yes you should say their names and then call them out for the shameless whores they are.

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    MarcelineAnne Branigin
    3/15/19 12:33pm

    I just learned that there will be a vigil in my city tonight at 5 PM to show support for the Muslim community and honestly I’m afraid. I just picture some MAGAt with a gun showing up to fire into the crowd.

    I’m going anyway.

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      meltingMarceline
      3/15/19 12:36pm

      Go, be aware, be safe.

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    Vanessa FutrellAnne Branigin
    3/15/19 11:56am

    Candace Owens is a collaborator, no different from the people who collaborated with the Nazis during WWII. 

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      Vanessa FutrellVanessa Futrell
      3/15/19 12:49pm

      * no different from the people who collaborated with the Nazis, against their own kind, during WWII. 

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      whatamithinkingVanessa Futrell
      3/15/19 2:23pm

      Exactly, and that’s why we should not dismiss her easily or quickly. Our enemies hate her too but understand her temporary value in carrying out their anti-black agenda. She is collaborating with folks who mean us serious harm - who would like to see us disappear. This is no joke.

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    ArtistAtLargeAnne Branigin
    3/15/19 5:00pm

    “The Left pretending I inspired a mosque massacre in...New Zealand because I believe black America can do it without government hand outs is the reachiest reach of all reaches!” she wrote.

    You feckless cunt, THE KILLER NAMED YOU!

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      Mr.DuckSauceArtistAtLarge
      3/15/19 5:24pm

      Don’t feed the troll.

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      5senses4you...ArtistAtLarge
      3/15/19 11:27pm

      So even in her response she had to take a shot at Black folk? Couldn’t leave politics out of it and just be a fellow human being horrified that her name would be associated with this monster? DAMN!

      I almost feel sorry for her. 

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    Old white guyAnne Branigin
    3/15/19 8:21pm

    “The Left pretending I inspired a mosque massacre in...New Zealand because I believe black America can do it without government hand outs is the reachiest reach of all reaches!” she wrote.

    Um, the guy said he inspired you. To somehow claim the left is ‘making this up’ or ‘reaching’ just shows how much reaching you are doing to try to pretend your rhetoric has no cost in this (or other) matters.

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